still from Loves of a Blonde, 1966 (dir. Milos Forman) Happy Valentine’s.
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“I do not have a girlfriend in Prague, I do not have a girlfriend in Prague, I do not have a girlfriend in Prague…”
February 14, 2008 – 10:19 pm
Gordon Matta-Clark on UbuWeb
January 10, 2008 – 9:44 pm
still from Office Baroque, 1977 (16mm, color, sound, 44 minutes) © Gordon Matta-Clark For those of you interested in the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, you’ll be happy to find that a number of his films are available on UbuWeb. I believe the video of Splitting, Bingo/Ninths, and Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1974-1976) was added just yesterday. [...]
Orson Welles: F For Fake
November 10, 2007 – 8:23 pm
still from Orson Welles’ F For Fake, 1974 Orson Welles is generally known for his 1938 radio broadcast of the science fiction novella War of the Worlds. If not for that, then for co-writing, directing, producing and starring in Citizen Kane (1941), commonly referred to as “the greatest film ever made.” Orson Welles is, however, [...]
Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
November 3, 2007 – 1:16 pm
L: Untitled, 2001 R: Untitled, 2001 © Tierney Gearon Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland’s film The Mother Project (2006) takes a close look at photographer Tierney Gearon and her complicated relationship with her schizophrenic mother. For those of you unfamiliar with the film or Tierney’s photographs, here’s a brief description: Photographer Tierney Gearon creates work [...]
The Cave Singers: Dancing On Our Graves
October 27, 2007 – 1:26 pm
I enjoyed watching this new music video for the The Cave Singers‘ song “Dancing On Our Graves” from their album Invitation Songs, released just last month on Matador Records. The video was directed by Mike Ott. Reminds me of the photographs of Steven Katzman.
Larry Clark, Great American Rebel
October 24, 2007 – 9:03 pm
Untitled, 1971 (from “Tulsa”) © Larry Clark Somebody took some time to archive their VHS copy of the Larry Clark documentary Great American Rebel (2003) on YouTube. The documentary, broken into six parts, features clips from most of Larry’s films and quite a lot of insightful conversation (some of which touches on his photographic work). [...]
Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat
October 20, 2007 – 12:59 am
still from Pine Flat, 2005 (16mm, TRT: 138 mins) © Sharon Lockhart It was sometime last fall that I first saw the work of Sharon Lockhart. I went to the screening of her film Pine Flat at the Harvard Film Archive after seeing her exhibition at Harvard’s Sackler Museum. Lockhart began by constructing a portrait [...]
Jørgen Leth: Det Perfekte Menneske (The Perfect Human)
October 6, 2007 – 12:19 pm
Det Perfekte Menneske (The Perfect Human) is the 1967 short film by Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth. Though it’s one of Leth’s first, it seems to be the film for which he is most well known. Unfortunately there are no subtitles in the only full version I could find online so for those of you that [...]
Wes Anderson: Hotel Chevalier
September 28, 2007 – 8:05 pm
still from Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier, 2007 Wes Anderson fans who just can’t wait for this weekend’s release of The Darjeeling Limited will be happy to discover that they can now get a taste of what’s to come with Hotel Chevalier – a 13-minute short film (and prequel to The Darjeeling Limited) staring Natalie Portman [...]
51 Birch Street
August 6, 2007 – 4:39 pm
Mike and Mina Block, 1965 from 51 Birch Street It was back in May, while I was D.C., that I went to the theatre to see the documentary 51 Birch Street (2005). Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents’ 54-year marriage was a good one. But when his mother dies unexpectedly [...]
